actinopharynx
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tube which leads from the mouth to the coelenteron in sea anemones
Example Sentences
- "Morphological synapomorphies that support anthozoan monophyly include the actinopharynx, which is an ectodermally-lined tube that extends from the mouth into the gastric cavity, the siphonoglyph, which is a ciliated groove in the actinopharynx, and the mesenteries, which are sheets of gastrodermal tissue that extend from the body wall into the coelenteron and have musculature of gastrodermal origin [18 ,22 ,23 ]."
Etymology
From actino- + pharynx.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: actino